How spicy can you take?

there's a HoneyBear that lives inside you, Ziggy.

 

Yep. Huge portion though.

It's crispy and spicy. Actually, I just found out about it. Been going since like 08.

 

How weird, I had Thai Gourmet last night (not my choice) for the first time. I didn't really like it. But then again, I wasn't in the mood for it.

 

I hate Sichuan food. Maybe it's just that seed or pepper that they put in there, but I really don't see any appeal in my tongue going numb. It's not even spicy, at all, just annoying.

Other than that, I'm good with everything habanero and below. By then, it's just not worth eating.

 

I don't really like the way it looks inside. But the food is the best thai I've had in Houston. You have a better place? Or just don't like thai?

 

I think its highly overrated. It's good, but nowhere as awesome as most people make it out to be.

 

I'm not a big Thai person, but the stuff I had in Portland was phenomenal.

 

Hell, I must be pushing off middle age forever because I can't stand eating bland foods and have to have spicy foods. I've gotten to the point that I grow my own peppers now because I can't trust cayenne powder and jalapenos from the store to be hot enough. Thai, Indian, Nashville hot chicken (lol), etc. are awesome.

 

I grow these and other scorpion peppers. The man doesn't lie. Brutal. I can eat a ghost pepper raw and, yes, it's hot as hell, but I tried a ripe Moruga I grew a few days ago and couldn't make it more than half the pepper before I got scared. lol. But... the Carolina Reaper is even hotter.

 

Lol...you might end up with an attempted murder case. Better hope they don't drop dead like the gas guy on dumb and dumber.

 

All the spices listed I have no problem what so ever. My rule of thumb is that any spicy food is fine in the US. But in Asia when I go to restaurant that ask for the level of spice, I choose mildly-spicy.

I do tend not to overeat spicy food because it makes all other food so bland.

 

Maybe you get it back once you reach old age?? :grin:

 

He can spend his time sucking down mango habenero wings at the trendy BW3s within the loop (which is like 4 or 5 at my last count).

 

I like the drawings on the chalkboards and the place is pretty decent. The tables are very close to each other though and some of the 2 seat tables make it where you're a little far from each other. The new, outside patio chairs were a dumb idea.


I've had Thai in a few cities and nothing stacks up. I ate at a bomb place in Toronto once but that was more like Straits (Fusion, Singaporian).

Spicy cheese rolls, tom yum soup, garlic Fish, pad ke mao (drunken noodles), okra, thai fried rice are the things I get.

 

Those are embassies for outer loopers.

 

This thread makes me want some Thai food.

 

They why do you go there?

And your theory is, when those places are packed, it's all suburbanites coming in from their franchise-invested wasteland. Because why, exactly? We don't want to live around y'all, but we'll gladly drive into town to eat at places we have all around us already?

I get it. You were ****ed in your pee pee hole by an Oklahoma State player until you became r****ded. It all makes sense now.

 

Also in culinary history for much of European history spiciness was considered the height of luxury because spices were so hard to obtain in Europe. The Portugese and later Dutch got rich off of spices from Malaya and Indonesia and the whole reason why Columbus was looking for a faster route to Asia was to have a route to get spices faster.

Also many things considered poverty food are now considered fine dining and luxury food. Lobsters in colonial times were considered only fit for widows and orphans who couldn't afford other things. Polenta was peasant food in Italy.

 

spices are very different than extreme spicy-ness, which this thread is about

 

I came back to my desk this afternoon at work and next to my keyboard was a fresh Moruga Scorpion:



The next time I have a few hours free I'm going to eat it....